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methods in botany acknowledge the system of CjESalpinus as their 
basis; but the do£lrine of Linnaeus is of a quite different nature. 
He suppressed the great number of false genera, and reduced every 
thing to its real genus : he omitted the absurd nomina generica, and 
substituted new ones in their place. He added, by a double theory, 
the art of getting acquainted with the virtues of the plants. He also 
first described a great number of new genera of ,s nts from the 
East and West Indies. 
He divided the animal reign into six classes, namely into quadrupeds, 
birds, amphibious animals, fishes, insefts and worms. He added to each 
the generical characters and the species. No naturalist but himself had 
ever accurately distinguished the worms from the inserts, although in his 
opinion they are more distinct from each other than the amphibious 
animals and the birds, or the birds and the quadrupeds. He is of opi- 
nion, that the generation of the worms in the bowels of human beings, 
is not to be attributed to the spawn of the insefts. 
The Hygra, which has been described by the ancients, and denied by 
some modern writers, he also mentioned as it has been lately found, 
and is preserved alive in England . 
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